Certified Systems & Infrastructure Professional
Design, build, and operate real systems and infrastructure, independently.
About 140 hours of real coursework
Enroll in this PathwayCertified Systems & Infrastructure Professional
Finishing every course is not what earns this credential. You earn it by demonstrating all 19 required competencies through real, assessed evidence, then bringing them together in the Project below — reviewed end to end, not graded on attendance.
Professional & Solution Architecture
- Identify the Underlying Problem
- Distinguish Problem from Proposed Solution
- Identify Stakeholders and Constraints
- Produce a Defensible Problem Statement
- Elicit Functional Requirements
- Identify Non-Functional Requirements
- Prioritize and Resolve Requirement Conflicts
- Produce Structured Requirements Documentation
- Decompose Requirements into Components
- Define Structure and Component Relationships
- Evaluate Architectural Trade-offs
- Document Architectural Decisions
- Document Interfaces and Dependencies
- Produce Professional-Facing Documentation
Professional Practice
- Requirements Interpretation & Communication
- Estimation & Planning
- Stakeholder Communication
- Professional Presentation & Defense
- Handover & Knowledge Transfer
Course Sequence
"A 4-6 month realistic infrastructure project: problem definition, architecture design, build and deployment, testing under real-world constraints, and operational handoff. Real-world constraints (uptime requirements, security, timeline), not a classroom exercise."
Included Modules
"Job search and portfolio presentation; the real differences between full-stack developer, network security professional, and cloud systems roles; interviewing skills for infrastructure roles; the entry-level infrastructure role salary and opportunity landscape."
Included Modules
Skills Gained
- Cloud infrastructure architecture
- Container orchestration
- Network security design
- CI/CD pipeline engineering
- Auto-scaling and load balancing
- Zero trust network design
- Infrastructure as code
- System reliability engineering
Professional Competencies
- • Requirements elicitation and stakeholder communication
- • Distinguishing the real problem from a proposed solution
- • Decomposing complex requirements into manageable components
- • System architecture design and trade-off evaluation
- • Documenting architectural decisions, interfaces, and dependencies
- • Structured requirements and technical documentation
- • Project estimation and planning
- • Professional presentation and defense of technical work
- • Knowledge transfer and project handover
Industry Tools
Integrated Systems Architecture & Deployment Project
One infrastructure system, architected, engineered, secured, tested, deployed, documented and defended.
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1
Discover
Infrastructure Problem Definition
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2
Define
Infrastructure Requirements Specification
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3
Architect
Systems Architecture + Network/Security Architecture
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4
Engineer
Working Infrastructure (Infrastructure-as-Code repository)
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5
Execute
Tested, deployed infrastructure (live environment, security validation)
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6
Professionalize
Full documentation/handover package
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7
Defend
Live panel defense
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This program is part of the Systems & Infrastructure Architect Pathway. You'll pick your starting cohort for Certified Systems & Infrastructure Professional — the first program in the pathway — on the next step.
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